After Guilliman built the Warp Firewall, contact with the Warp was no longer a high-risk thing.
The decline in danger also allowed the Empire to possess a large number of technical experts specializing in the study of the Warp.
There are a large number of subspace research institutes established within the Empire.
Related projects cover all aspects.
From the types, composition, and activity characteristics of the inanimate to virtual mirrors, relics of ancient civilizations, subspace information reading, and so on.
The Imperium therefore established a body of knowledge about the Warp.
Research by countless scholars and technical experts has made this knowledge system comprehensive.
In the past, people's understanding of the subspace was more about psychic power, strange creatures and eternal gods.
Being associated with the subspace represents a potential crisis of corruption.
In the past when there were no good means of protection, the Human Empire relied on various almost superstitious and ignorant means to resist the Warp.
Just like ancient people resisted science.
Given the crisis facing the empire at the time, there was no question of right or wrong.
It merely expresses the chaotic and indistinguishable nature of the subspace.
There is no such thing as good and evil.
The Warp is far from simple.
Its secrets are endless.
Anyone who dares to claim that he has fully understood the secrets of the Warp is either a shameful liar or a pitiful madman.
Countless universes were born, flourished, and then destroyed.
Countless lives have left reflections or traces in the warp.
Every second, countless secrets are broken, and every second, countless secrets are formed.
Who can understand it all
After careful research, the Imperial technicians discovered that the Warp was not simply populated by the Unliving and the Gods.
There are still many mysterious and unimaginable things.
As the root of the endless universe, the subspace also accepts the remnants left after the death of those universes.
Just like fallen leaves returning to their roots.
Those destroyed universes and civilizations were eventually absorbed by the subspace and became nutrients for the next universe and civilization.
Of course not all of the residue will be absorbed by the subspace.
Some indigestible residues will remain dormant in the subspace, forming various objects that appear strange to creatures in the material universe.
These items often possess powerful regulatory capabilities that can distort and ignore the physical laws of the real universe.
It can exert powerful forces, but also has terrible side effects.
For those ignorant civilizations that have not established a complete cosmology and subspace science, objects with strange powers are often revered as sacred objects.
The Empire naturally also did some research on this.
However, the real universe has its own operating rules, which separate the subspace from the real world.
Those strange objects would occasionally fall into the real universe, but their numbers were small and they generally wouldn't cause any major crisis.
But as the Empire's alien universe tunnel project progressed, strange objects that should have been deposited deep in the subspace continued to appear in the tunnel.
Trying to escape from the depths of the subspace and enter the real universe with the help of humans.
As the tunnel goes deeper into the subspace, the appearance of strange objects becomes increasingly frequent.
The empire divides those strange items into harmless level, minor disaster level, light disaster level, major disaster level, severe disaster level, and blockade level according to the degree of harm they cause.
There is no upper limit to the blocking level. It cannot be made public, leaked, or discussed. When necessary, even the memories of the participants will be cleared.
The Empire's attitude towards those strange objects has always been to contain them without subjective consciousness, and to destroy those with subjective consciousness and malicious intentions towards humans.
If it cannot be destroyed or contained, they will find a way to throw it deeper into the subspace.
The reason why the imperial high-ranking officials did not choose to completely destroy those strange objects was also due to their considerations.
As the alien universe project progresses, the number of non-staff members in the alien universe development department increases.
The ratio between non-staff and regular employees has even reached 50:1 or 100:1.
Most of the non-staff personnel are local indigenous people recruited by the Space Exploration Team.
Mainly responsible for intelligence gathering, public opinion guidance and other work.
These recruited non-staff personnel are generally humans and have relatively weak combat capabilities.
They need certain support from the empire so that they can protect themselves in complex situations.
The question is what kind of technology can ensure maximum benefits!
The connections between different universes are weak, and the lifespan of local indigenous humans is not very long.
The Empire's powerful law enforcement agencies find it difficult to effectively deter those guys across the warp.
If the Empire's genetic modifications, technological creations and the like were provided to those non-staff members, if they rebelled, it would lead to the leakage of the Empire's technology.
It is also likely to provoke resistance from local forces and even interference from cosmic forces.
By then, powerful civilizations will most likely guess the empire’s technological level through its technological creations, and may even launch a counter-invasion and anti-colonization campaign against the empire.
Transmitting technology that can be used by all people to those universes beyond the reach of the Empire's influence is indeed something that requires caution.
The alien universe development management department chose a compromise and even waste-recycling method.
That is to provide non-staff personnel with strange items that have been rendered harmless.
On the one hand, it can reduce the risk of the empire being discovered. On the other hand, it can also create some value for the strange objects that frequently appear in the tunnels and reduce the losses of the empire.
Chagatai has been in the alien universe tunnel, responsible for the preparation and establishment of a mobile protection system.
Checking, processing, and storing those usable strange items are naturally also his responsibilities.
The most common dangers in the alien universe tunnel are demon invasions and chaos caused by strange objects.
The staff at the rest stop are still at their posts.
Through communication with them, Chagatai and his entourage quickly obtained detailed intelligence on the crisis.
The relevant personnel will organize it into a document, send it to each member involved in the task, and then back up the original document to the storage device.
After the task is completed, these documents must be submitted to other departments for evaluation.
Hazard assessment report.
A serious disaster-level strange object, with a black cubic structure of 25cm*25cm*25cm made of unknown ceramic material. According to the emergency response team report of the rest stop, laser, force field compression, high-energy antimatter bombs and other means have been used to destroy it, but the expected effect has not been achieved.
The Rubik's Cube will mark every individual who sees it, whether it is seen directly, through images, photos, etc., it will be considered as meeting the concept of seeing. After marking, the Rubik's Cube will ignore the spatial distance and appear in front of the marked person (if there are more than one person, multiple Rubik's Cubes will appear at the same time). The magic will require the other party to complete the Rubik's Cube game and adjust it to the same side and color within a limited time.
Those who complete the game will survive and wait for the next more complex Rubik's Cube game. Those who fail the game will be controlled and become puppets of the Rubik's Cube. The puppets will get different levels according to the number of times they pass the game. The higher the level, the more memory they retain. After the puppet is killed, it will be resurrected at the Rubik's Cube.
The Rubik's Cube puppets can deceive and disguise, but will not use lethal means. They just try to let more people see the Rubik's Cube to create a memetic infection.
The current highest clearance record is nine times, 1,530 people have been infected, the rest stop has been closed, and the smart machinery has not been affected and is still operating normally.
Seeing this, Chagatai frowned slightly.
Fortunately, the rest stop is a local area network, which means it is not connected to other rest stops or the empire.
Communications will only send pre-set messages.
It is this rigor that prevents the spread of the Rubik's Cube meme.
Otherwise, in the information-based world, a photo can spread around the world in just a few minutes.
The consequences of that would be unimaginable.
"This is the target rule analysis report." A technician passed another piece of data to Chagatai.
The target has been coded, and the relevant coding information can be queried after exiting. The puppet cube has been parsed. The rules of this item are as follows.
1: Any individual who observes the Rubik's Cube visually will activate the Rubik's Cube meme and be marked by the Rubik's Cube.
2: When a single person is marked, the marked person needs to accept twelve Rubik's Cube games in a row, and can gain control of the Rubik's Cube after completing them.
3: If multiple people are marked, and there are still more than one marked person after twelve magic games, the Rubik's Cube Game will start the thirteenth game until only one person survives and becomes its owner.
4: Those who lose the game will become puppets of the Rubik's Cube, and will be controlled and enslaved by the owner of the Rubik's Cube. This enslavement cannot be lifted. When the owner of the Rubik's Cube dies and the magic is reset, the puppets will disappear and wait for the next collection.
5: After the owner is determined, no matter how many times you successfully pass the Rubik's Cube game, you will not become the owner. If you fail once, you will become a Rubik's Cube puppet. Only after killing the owner and playing the Rubik's Cube game can you become the owner of the Rubik's Cube.
6: Before the owner is identified, the Rubik's Cube puppets will continue to look for new targets to play the Rubik's Cube game until the owner appears.
7: The more times you pass the Rubik's Cube game, the more memory and IQ you will retain after becoming a Rubik's Cube puppet. When necessary, in order to expand the influence of the Rubik's Cube, the Rubik's Cube puppet will disguise itself as a normal person.
8: The Rubik's Cube is not limited by spatial distance. As long as a creature sees it, it will appear out of thin air in front of the other party.
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102: This item has strong side effects. Each time it is used, it absorbs a certain amount of spiritual nutrients, which may cause the user to become dizzy, have unusual ringing in the ears, hallucinations, fatigue, etc. The more times it is used, the more serious these conditions will be.
Evaluation: This severe disaster item has a certain containment value, but it needs to be kept and monitored at all times. This item will lose its characteristics in areas that restrict the subspace, such as the exorcist dead zone and the anti-subspace force field. Individuals with psychic talents have a certain immunity to its rules. The stronger the psychic power, the stronger the immunity.
The Empire has a data analysis library for the subspace, and with its super computing power, it can analyze most of the strange items.
"Everyone, adjust to radiation sensing mode. You can only communicate by voice. Do not look at posters, pictures, or graffiti related to the Rubik's Cube. Our mission is to eliminate all memetic carriers and recover the Rubik's Cube."
After giving the order, Chagatai put on a helmet. Logically speaking, such an item would not have any effect on him, but it is better to be cautious.
Walking to the gate of the rest stop, Chagatai once again connected the internal communications of the rest stop.
"All employees should lie on the ground with their hands on their heads. Anyone who disrupts the operation will be executed immediately."
After saying this, Chagatai placed his hand covered with an armored glove on the sensor panel.
The authorization code was used to open the protective shield that blocked the entire rest stop.
There was the sound of mechanical pistons and the hiss of the force field being shut down.
The rest stop slowly opened a small door that allowed the special team to enter.
Chagatai was the first to step in.
The team members followed closely and walked into the rest stop.
PS: I went out for a while and came back late. I still plan to write more than 6,000, finish the article on the containment, and make the Empire's exchange library more abundant. Plans can't keep up with changes. Considering that the world view of SCP is mainly concentrated in one world and there is no main story line, it may not be a separate line, but will be mixed with other lines.